Immersive, if ...

Rating: 8/10 (19 July 2013)

If you are a film critic, or a wannabe one, then, it's a Swiss cheese in the critic's arsenal: plot, characterizations, blah blah blah (Sorry Drac).
I am 60. I love special effects and larger than life action, together with suitably loud and relevant sound.
I saw Pacific Rim for no other reason, and I loved it for that reason: Action, amazing (for me) CGI, great sound and excellent momentum. I was totally immersed in an eruption of sensory explosions. Simple, exciting, immersive.
I forgot myself, who I was, my mortgage, my parking ticket. Great flick! Good medicine for me.
I can now go and watch anyone of the top 250 IMDb and apply an entirely different set of criteria and expectations and I know I will similarly NOT be disappointed